Politics

The government has detained Abdullah under the Public Safety Act (PSA), a law enacted by his father and NC founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah in 1978 when he was the chief minister.

Refuting reports that the Congress might emerge as a surprise player in the upcoming assembly elections and put up a tough fight, as was the case in Haryana, Singh said the situation in the national capital is 'completely different'.

A TMC leader said the decision to release constituency-wise manifestos was taken as the party leadership wanted the focus to be on the development of the place and not temple and NRC issues.

Shiv Sena currently has 94 corporators, . The BJP has 83, followed by the Congress with 28, NCP with eight, Samajwadi Party with six, and MIM and MNS having two and one respectively.

Chief Minister K Palaniswami had said Rajinikanth was just an actor and not a political leader, DMK leader Durai Murugan had insisted his party chief MK Stalin has already filled that vacuum.

Dilip Ghosh also questioned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's silence on the apex court's verdict on the Rafale deal and demanded a statement from her.

Reiterating BJP chief Amit Shah’s remarks, Madhav said the BJP has always been clear on its stand that Devendra Fadnavis is their leader of the ‘Mahayuti’ (grand alliance).

The MLAs were holed up at the luxury resort, located close to the Delhi-Jaipur national highway, as the Congress remained busy holding discussions with the NCP and the Shiv Sena with regard to the government formation in Maharashtra, which was placed unde...

NCP's legislature party head Ajit Pawar, its Maharashtra chief Jayant Patil, party veteran Chhagan Bhujbal, Mumbai unit president Nawab Malik and Leader of the Opposition in state Legislative Council Dhananjay Munde will be part of the committee.

"What was the rush that the governor only granted 24 hours to the party which emerged second in the polls. This is not fair to the people and also to the MLAs," he said.

Founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena in its more than five decades long journey has allied with the Congress, formally and informally.

The AJSU party also nominated Kushwaha Shiv Pujan Mehta, who won the Hussainabad seat on Bahujan Samaj Party ticket in 2014 assembly elections and recently joined the AJSU party, from the same constituency.

The first strains in their ties surfaced in the 2014 assembly polls when they fought separately after the Sena's refusal to part with the number of seats the BJP wanted.

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar said there should be greater emphasis on education and teachers must be treated with respect and paid their due.

As the 7.30 pm deadline ended for Shiv Sena, Governor Koshyari invited the NCP to form government. State unit NCP president Jayant Patil said the party will discuss the issue with Congress and get back by 8:30pm on Tuesday.

Baig appealed to Muslim petitioners in the Ayodhya case not to challenge the verdict.